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The Fruits and Vegetables manual is a reference manual on diseases which attack fruits (including berries), vegetables, and nuts.The manual identifies various types of diseases which are known to invade these plants located throughout North, Central, and South America....
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Springer
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2013-03-22
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Zoo Animal Welfare thoroughly reviews the scientific literature on the welfare of zoo and aquarium animals. Maple and Perdue draw from the senior author’s 24 years of experience as a zoo executive and international leader in the field of zoo biology. The authors’...
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Springer
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2013-03-22
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Working from basic chemical principles, Metals in Medicine presents a complete and methodical approach to the topic. Introductory chapters discuss important bonding concepts applicable to metallo-drugs and their biological targets, interactions that exist between the...
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Wiley
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2013-03-21
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Asiatic Momordica comprises 10 species of which 3 are monoecious and rest dioecious. They are unique in the sense that all are wild or cultivated vegetables with medicinal uses. Barring bitter gourd, all are under utilized vegetables with little research and...
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Springer
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2013-03-21
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This book focuses on sensing and the evolution of animals. Using the five senses (visual, auditory, and olfactory perception, and taste and touch), animals can receive environmental stimuli and respond to them. Changes in these sensitivities might cause changes in...
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Springer
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2013-03-21
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Tetraspanin proteins have recently emerged as a new class of modulators of various processes involving cell surface receptors, including cell migration and invasion, host immune responses, cell-cell fusion, and viral infection. The book summarises recent advances in the...
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Springer
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2013-03-20
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For decades, Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics has provided the ultimate source for practicing clinicians to learn how the study of genetics can be integrated into practice.
With almost 5,000 pages of detailed coverage, this fully online...
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Academic Press
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2013-03-20
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Plant tissue culture (PTC) is basic to all plant biotechnologies and is an exciting area of basic and applied sciences with considerable scope for further research. PTC is also the best approach to demonstrate the totipotency of plant cells, and to exploit it for...
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Springer
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2013-03-20
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This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field.This volume covers cilia and includes chapters on such topics as methods for studying ciliary polarity in Xenopus, analysis of...
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Academic Press
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2013-03-16
epub sans DRM
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Present-day society asks more from agriculture than just the production of food. Agriculture is now required to be concerned with the quality of food, ecosystem services, inclusion of marginalized populations, revitalization of rural territories, energy production,...
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Wageningen Academic Publishers
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2013-03-15
ePub
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Climate change, a global phenomenon, has attracted scientists to contribute in anticipatory research to mitigate adverse impacts, which are more important for horticulture, considering that the scenario is in the midst of revolution, reaching the production level of 250...
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Springer
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2013-03-15
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Insect parasitoids are a fascinating group of animals in many respects. Perhaps the most fascinating point is that these insects, in the course of the evolutionary time, have developed an impressive way to use chemical compounds to dialogue with the different...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-15
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Many physiological conditions such as host defense or aging and pathological conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases, and diabetes are associated with the accumulation of high levels of reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species. This generates a...
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Springer
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2013-03-15
ePub
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The evolution of single cells into multicellular organisms was mediated, in large part, by the extracellular matrix.The proteins and glycoconjugates that make up the extracellular matrix provide structural support to cellular complexes, facilitate cell adhesion and...
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Springer
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2013-03-15
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Biology of Extracellular Matrix
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Cells in the developing embryo depend on signals from the extracellular environment to help guide their differentiation. An important mediator in this process is the extracellular matrix – secreted macromolecules that interact to form large protein networks outside the...
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Springer
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2013-03-15
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Biology of Extracellular Matrix
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Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, a large volume of monitoring data has been collected about the soil, air, dust, and seawater, along with data about an immense number of foods supplied to the market. Little is known, however, about the effect of radioactive...
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Springer
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2013-03-15
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Agroecosystem is an ideal dynamic functional system with a set of chemical and biological interaction taking place in plant surface either below or above the ground levels. These levels of interaction activities fundamentally with microorganism-plant-soil systems are...
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Springer
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2013-03-15
ePub
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Vector-borne diseases continue to be one of the most important determinants affecting human and animal health. Large numbers of people suffer from diseases like malaria, dengue, filariasis and leishmaniasis, especially in the tropics. Whereas these diseases were...
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Wageningen Academic Publishers
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2013-03-15
ePub
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Australopithecus species have been the topic of much debate in palaeoanthropology since Raymond Dart described the first species, Australopithecus africanus, in 1925. This volume synthesizes the geological and paleontological context of the species in East and South...
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-03-15
Collection :
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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Das grundlegende Werk von Darwin On the Origin of Species liegt hier in der originalen Übersetzung durch Julius Victor Carus vor, erweitert durch zahlreiche Erläuterungen, aussagekräftige Abbildungen sowie wichtige historische Bezüge. Die Entstehung der Arten von...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-14
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